It's been said that getting plastered is never really as much fun as you want it to be, but most of the time it's pretty bearable and occasionally it can be a lot of fun. On Saturday I met up with Pamela again and we had a really good time. As sort of a result of circumstances, I ended up walking around Namba for about 45 minutes, taking pictures ( Read more... )

The cute girl from last week emailed me back, so hopefully we can get together before too long. No matter what kind of job they have, everybody is insanely busy with work here, so it's nice to meet somebody who's a student. Not too much else to report, other than the fact that I've been really giddy for the past couple of days ( Read more... )

This week has been eventful to say the least. On Sunday I went to the pillows concert, which even more fun than I'd expected it to be. Even though they've been around for about 16 years now (and there's actually a pillows tribute album!) it still seems like hardly anybody knows who they are in Japan. You Americans might know them from a little ( Read more... )

This weekend was some crazy fun. I was meeting my friends Youko and Keiko in Kyoubashi after work on Friday, and this other girl that I just met recently emailed me and wanted to know if I was doing anything. I figured the best thing to do was put them all together and see what develops. Since just about all of my friends in Osaka fall into the " ( Read more... )

Lately work has been crazily busy. I'm not sure if my company just finally realized that I'm going to be gone soon and decided to get their money's worth or what, but I'm doing two projects that are both larger than just about everything that I've done up until now. I've even been putting in a little overtime to try and get things done before the ( Read more... )

Last weekend I met a girl in Namba. From the moment that I met her, I could tell that we would get along since she was really alive. We went to an izakaya and had a long conversation where we touched on Miyazaki's films, language learning, my own sordid past, and the Japanese educational system. I'm always happy to make a new friend, especially ( Read more... )

I used to buy into the theory that the ideal person would do everything by themselves and owe nothing to other people. This was because I was in high school and didn't have much perspective on things, and also perhaps because I took Ayn Rand much too seriously. If I had bothered to think through that argument I might have seen that it would lead to ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

After a lot of preparation and silliness involving Yahoo auctions, I finally got tickets for all of the concerts that I wanted to go to. I'll be going to a concert a week during the first three weeks of March, and my family is coming to visit Japan for the fourth ( Read more... )

I used to think of myself as a character in a novel. Thoughts like the entry title above would come into my head and reinforce the image. When you think of yourself in the third person, life becomes a bit more abstract and perhaps bearable. The story I was in could have used a lot of editing, though, and probably wouldn't have sold very well. Such ( Read more... )